James Forman Jr.
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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have them in for longer.
I'm going to have them in worse conditions.
And so it became this kind of race to ever more punitiveness, ever longer sentences.
The only way you would ever get defeated as a prosecutor, as established prosecutor, is if your opponent could point to some case where you didn't get the longest possible sentence and the public is outraged.
And so there's a dynamic here where public sentiment, which is
you know, typically very kind of anti-crime and wanting more punishment leads to a dynamic where all of these county prosecutors all over the country get more and more and more punitive.
Yeah, I think that's right.
So...
Think about it like this, or here's one way into thinking about this question of the defense attorneys and the media.
I was a training director for a year at the public defender office in DC and we had a two month training program at the office.
And typically on a Friday afternoon during the end of near the end of training on the syllabus, it would say media training.
And they would come in, the new lawyers who were being trained would come in two or three o'clock on a Friday.
And I would say, okay, we're going to do the media training today.
And then on the board, you pull across the curtain and it says, no comment.
And then I would tell them, all right, go watch a movie, go enjoy your weekend.
Come on.
Yeah, because that is the media training that we were provided in my office.
Those are the two words that you say, no comment.
Now that's extreme.
My office was extreme.
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